Tuesday, January 28, 2014

I've just about returned to the land of normality. Shame, because I think I prefer holidays!

We've had an awesome month of holidaying around the countryside.

We spent 15 nights camping on the Murray River near Echuca.

Here are a few of my Instagram pictures.

We came home for a few days - just enough time to unpack, do about 20 loads of washing (I'm not exaggerating there) and repack again before heading for more camping this time on the stunning Great Ocean Road at Lorne.

While packing I managed to squeeze in a small tote of scrappy supplies amongst the sleeping bags

and tent. ;) Everyone else was relaxing with what they enjoy most so I figured I'd do the same.

See!

I decided to scrap the current Kraft It Up challenge only problem is I didn't take any

Kraft card stock!! So after a little brainstorming I came up with the idea of using the inside of a carton of beer. ;)

Perfect kraft colour and corrugated as well. Bonus!

Here's a picture of my background coming together.

Here's my page.

The Challenge.

SUMMER THEMED PHOTO

WASHI OR SIMILARA NUMBER

I've posted some close up images below.

Number stickers from a 12x12 sticker sheet from the Studio Calico Range, Printshop.

Flair buttons and adhesive cork shapes also from the Printshop range.

I used Heidi Swapp Color Shine sprays to colour the background. You can see some of the washi here as well as a border around the corner of my papers.

The chippie star type shapes on this page were actually flowers that I removed the stem

from and made them into funky looking stars.

This third one is filled with bursts of bright colours! So, because I love brights, it easily made it into my ten favs. I like how the B&W photo stands out against all the colour. I coloured the alpha frame grey and highlighted my kids initials in different colours. Most of the chipboard is painted with acrylic paints, some of them also coated with distress stickles for some sparkle.

Another bright one!
I guess you can see my style coming out here as we go along!
I covered some of the circular chipboard shapes on this one with Washi Tape.

I kept all the Chipboard on this page decorated in a uniform manner as there was so much happening on the background a coat of white paint and brown ink around the edges made the Chipboard jump out on this page as well as matching the cricket whites theme of the photo.

Gold Leaf! A bit tricky to apply but on painted chipboard it gives a great effect.

I also used a metallic pen to outline the title chipboard.

One of my all time favourite pages!

The Chipboard on this one had a heap of different products applied. Paint, Clear crackle medium, glimmer mist, chalk ink and finally some distress stickles.

Oh and some doodling with a white gel pen on the title!

I did this page when I first started playing with Distress paints.

So the chipboard on this one has some texture paste then some little dabs of distress paint.

I did this page as my current layout for the Design Team at Scrap The Boys

(still time to enter if you haven't already) ;)

With this one I adhered the chipboard and embellishments to the base before coating everything with Gesso and then using various sprays, inks and stamping. I had lots of fun with this page flicking and splatting (not sure that's a word but you know what I mean) paint and ink all over the place.

And lastly one of my favourite and most often used techniques with chipboard.
Texture paste dabbed on with my finger and then stamping over it with texture stamps.
Double the texture! Twice as nice! - just like my twinies here!

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you've enjoyed seeing all the many ways I've used chipboard on these pages.